Lot 316
Collection of Booksellers' and Publishers' Catalogues – Palestine and Poland, 1920s to 1940s
22 book listings and catalogues of Hebrew and Yiddish books (and games), published on behalf of book publishers and booksellers in Palestine and Poland, 1920s to 1940s. Hebrew and Yiddish.
1. Catalogue of the "For the Sake of the Book – Office for the Distribution of the Hebrew Book in Israel" bookseller. Tel Aviv: HaShahar Publishers, ca. December 1927 / early 1928.
2. Catalogue of Hebrew books, Student Library of the Gymnasia Herzliya Hebrew High School. Tel Aviv: A. Strod Printing, 1924.
3. Book list of the Moriah Bookseller and Book Agency, 1929.
4. Catalogue No. 1 of textbooks, teaching aids, and games. Tel Aviv: Amsom Stationery and Bookseller's Organization, 1936.
5. Catalogue of books of the Land of Israel. Warsaw: Zentral Co., 1929. Featuring paintings by Reuven Rubin.
6. "Prospekt," Catalogue of Tomor Publishers, Vilnius, 1936.
7. Bikher-Katalog, Kooperativer Bikher-Lager ‘Kult-Bukh' ("Kult-Bukh" Cooperative Book Warehouse), Warsaw, 1939.
8. Books and Games from Palestine, catalogue, published by the Institute for Foreign Trade, Ltd., (Department of Products of Palestine for the Diaspora), in cooperation with the World Hebrew Alliance, Tel Aviv, 1946. With photographs.
9. Catalogue of A. Y. Stybel Publishers, Moscow, August 1935.
10-16. Seven catalogues of the Dvir publishing company from the years 1936-40, 1945, and 1949.
17. Catalogue of the Yavneh publishing company, September, 1945.
18. Catalogue of the Kiryat Sefer publishing company, June, 1946.
19. Catalogue of the Sifriyat Poalim publishing company, the Kibbutz HaArtzi / Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, 1946.
20. Catalogue of the Am Oved publishing company, 1950.
21. Catalogue of the Center for Culture of the Histadrut Labour Federation (The General Organization of Workers in Israel), [ca. 1951].
22. Catalogue of the Hebrew Book Fair at the Tel Aviv Museum, 1949.
The signature or handwritten comments of the composer Gabriel Grad appear on some of the catalogues.
Sizes and condition vary.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
